timberman
Americannoun
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timbermen
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of timberman
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at timber, man
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The concept dates to 1917, when a wealthy Michigan timberman named Charles Lathrop Pack started the National War Garden Commission, according to the World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2025
Born in Alder Gulch, Mont, in 1869, son of a well-to-do timberman, Thompson went to school at Exeter, was popular but undistinguished, formed a friendship with Thomas W. Lament that lasted all his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The timberman driving through the hollow had not seen the bobcat and her three blind babies; but he had roused the mother cat and she was now all ready to spring at intruders.
From Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret by Annie Roe Carr
"A seaman's curse light on the folly that exposes planks and lives to such navigation; and all to burn some old timberman, or catch a Norway trader asleep! give way, men, give way!"
From The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper
She came in sight of the young timberman and his outfit.
From Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret by Annie Roe Carr
Proulx presents a thrilling, 300-year saga about the vast forests and the rapacious timbermen who enabled the United States to conquer the world.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
When timbermen tried to go on their own lands, they were seized by the officious Marine guards of the camp and escorted off by the seat of the pants.
From Time Magazine Archive
An immediate remedy proposed for timbermen is substitution of a single "severance tax" of 10% at cutting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Student teachers pay for the privilege of being counselors, and dozens of volunteers, from timbermen to Navy Seabees, chip in everything from cash to carpentry.
From Time Magazine Archive
The present generation of timbermen look upon a very different scene.
From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell
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